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Ryan Burge

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1121 total appearances

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Plain English with Derek Thompson
America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage

Like that's somehow that like has some predictive power.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage

By the way, those people are so interesting to me because they think like believing in Jesus is absolutely nonsense.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage

But like what star sign you were born over changes your entire life trajectory.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage

Like that makes more sense to them.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage

So that's espionage.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage

Yeah, so there's one that's sort of more methodological than Nino's, nuns in name only.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage

And I think this is actually a problem because a lot of these people say they have no religious affiliation, but then you ask them questions about like religious stuff and they do a bunch of religious stuff.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage

And you're like, wait a minute, why are you saying you're not religious when you really are?

Plain English with Derek Thompson
America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage

So actually that's like 25% of the nuns are Ninos.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage

So we actually think we're doing a bad job of measuring non-religious people.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage

Like we need to do a better at like making them say they're Christians when they actually are Christians.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage

Because right now we say Protestant, Catholic, LDS, Orthodox Christian.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage

A lot of people don't know they're Protestant, by the way, Derek, FYI.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage

Like a lot of people who think they're Baptist, those non-denom churches we were just talking about, they don't use the word Protestant.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage

They don't even use the word religion.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage

They say, we're not a religion, we're a relationship.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage

We're a new movement of faith.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage

They don't use typical Christian language.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage

So it makes it hard for those people to know what they are on surveys.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage

So we actually think the nuns are probably smaller than what we think they are.